Dooly CO. GA             Mattie Caldwell Parham Obituary
                                      
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     THE GOSPEL MESSENGER, Vol. 27 No. 11, November, 1905
     
     Mrs. Mattie Parham
     
     Sister Parham, wife of Brother L. E. Parham, daughter of Brother
     Ben and Nancy Caldwell, and granddaughter of Elder Creed Caldwell,
     was born April 30, 1861, and was married to Brother L. E. Parham
     December 14, 1886. To this union were born five children, three
     boys and two girls, one boy dead. She and her husband joined the
     Primitive Baptist Church at Sharon, Monroe County, Ga. the first
     Sunday in September, 1893, and was baptized by Elder W. C.
     Cleveland. She died at her home at Unadilla, Ga. July 2, 1905. She
     left a kind husband, four children, one sister , and a host of
     relatives and friends to mourn their loss, but we believe that our
     loss is her eternal gain. She was a kind wife and a good mother.
     She was kind to all and especially to the sick and the poor. She
     had a kind word for all. She had that dreaded disease, consumption.
     All was done for her that doctors, a kind husband, and good friends
     could do, but all to no avail. God was her best friend. He said,
     "Child, come home", and she was ready without a murmur. We think it
     hard to give up such a good wife, mother and friend as she was; but
     what a blessed thought that we had a good one to give up! It is the
     Lord that giveth and the Lord that taketh away; and blessed be the
     name of the Lord. I will say to the children, "Remember your kind
     mother's good advice. She would say, "Live right: be kind to all."
     I want you all to follow her good example here, and when time is no
     more on earth, O may we meet on that happy shore, where parting is
     no more. I pray that the Lord may give the husband grace that he
     may be ready, when the Lord calls, and that he may, like Cousin
     Mattie, fall asleep in Jesus.
     
     J. R. Adams
     
     Joseph Randall Adams was married to Mary Elizabeth Caldwell 1st
     cousin to Mattie Caldwell Parham.
     
     Mattie Caldwell Parham was the daughter of Benjamin F. Caldwell and
     Nancy Elizabeth Gresham.